My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again // Vol 1 (Land)

Directed by Rebecca Pappas
Choreography and Text by The Ensemble Dramaturgy by Meredith Bove
Costumes by Joy Havens
Performed by Ellen Smith Ahern, Rebecca Pappas, Taylor Zappone

Rebecca Pappas makes dances that excavate the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her work has toured nationally and internationally and she has received residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi, and funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Mellon Foundation. In 2021 she is a CT Office of the Arts Fellow. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
@rkpdance

Ellen Smith Ahern grew up dancing in Illinois and came east to earn her BA in Dance at Middlebury College ’05. Since then she’s collaborated with many artists, including Jane Comfort & Company, Lida Winfield, Kate Elias, Rebecca Pappas, Hannah Dennison, Polly Motley, El Circo Contemporaneo, David Appel and Tiffany Rhynard’s Big APE. Ellen has had the opportunity to tour throughout Mexico, Cuba, Qatar, Europe and the US. With support from NEFA, Dance Films Association, Ucross Foundation, The Field, VT Arts Council, Flynn Center, VT Arts Endowment Fund, Coginchaug Valley Education Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has shared her work through film, installation and live performance in venues such as Dance on Camera Festival/Film at Lincoln Center, Bates Dance Festival,
Dixon Place, the Flynn Theater, the Ionion Center of Kefalonia and the Rococo Theatre in Prague. Ellen lives with her family in New Hampshire, where she continues to work as an independent artist and practice social work, organizing with communities for migrant justice and racial equity.

Taylor Zappone is a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist and poet who has been based in Connecticut for 2 years. A Waterbury native, Taylor is thrilled to be back dancing and advocating for the arts in her home state. After receiving her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2017, she spent a year as a freelance dancer and choreographer in New York City. There she performed and presented some of her own work at several venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Since returning to Connecticut, Taylor has been lucky enough to work with the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Peter Kyle, and Rebecca Pappas. She is eagerly looking forward to her first season as a Resident Artist with The Dance Collective.

Photos by Shige Moriya

OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project and and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company/SHARING THE STAGE.

LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Artistic and General Co-Directors
Krystel Copper Marketing and Outreach Associate
Brandon Perdomo Administrative and Program Associate
Greer Dworman Finance Associate
Megan Kendzior Strategic Development Consultant